Combination stock-car door and running-board



6 S J. B'. SMILEY & w. B. CHEEK.

GOMBINATION $TOUK GAR DOOR ANDRUNNING' BQARD. No. 566,029. Patented Aug. 18, 18 96.

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PATENT TFFICE.

J OI'IN B. SMILEY AND WILLIAM B. OHEEK, OF SOUTH OMAHA, NEBRASKA.

COMBl NATlONSTOCK-CAR DOOR AND RUNNING-BOARD.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 566,029, dated August 18, 1896.

Application filed December 26, 1895. Serial No. 573,410. (No model.)

.To aZZ whom, it may concern.-

Be it known that we, JOHN B. SMILEY and WILLIAM B. CHEEK, residing at South Omaha, in the county of Douglas and State of Nebraska,haveinvented certain useful Improvements in a Combination Stock-Oar Door and Running-Board and we do hereby declare that the followingis a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilledin the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, which form a part of this specification.

This invention has relation to a new and novel combination-door for stock-cars, the object of our invention being to provide a stockdoor that shall be so arranged that either the upper or lower half can be operated independently, and the lower section of the bar shall further be so arranged that said door may be used as a running-board in unloading the stock.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 shows a side elevation of a broken section of the car, showing the door as closed. Fig. 2 shows a broken section of the car, disclosing Fig. 3 shows a side elevation showing the door in position and used as a running-board, while Fig. 4 shows a top view of the lockinghook.

A represents an ordinary car provided with the usual door-sills 1 l and the braces 2 common to cars as ordinarily built, and which car is provided above the door, at a suitable point, with an ordinary L-rail B, as shown. Suspended from this rail 13, by means of two J -shaped sliding hangers 3 3, is an ordinary door-frame O, which may be solid or provided with grate-bars CL, and which frame covers, approximately, half of the door opening. This door-frame preferably comprises the upper section of my door, andits position when closed is regulated by means of an ordinary stop D.

Secured to the side opposite the stop D is a plate E, having an outwardly-extending stem 5, which stem is provided with an opening, as is shown in Fig. 3, into which a retainingbar (shown in Fig. 4:) is adapted to work. In Fig. 3 to show the opening within the stem 5 the bar 6 has been eliminated. In operating this upper door-section it is simply necessary to slide the section away from the stop D. In locking and sealing this upper doonsection we use the usual latch-bar 10, which works through an opening 11 of the bar .6, and to this latched bar 10 we affix the usual seal 12, as is commonly practiced.

Loosely working between the door-jambs 1 1, and preferably flush with the same, is the lower door-section F, which preferably comprises a solid section, which is provided near its lower end upon one side with an ordinary bar K. Secured to the door-jamb 1 1 are hand holds I, which act in the capacity of ears in retaining the bar K, as shown in Figs. 1 and 3.

To prevent the door-section F from falling inward, we provide the preferably metallic bar G, which extends beyond the door and is adapted to work against the sills 1 1 when the door is in a closed position. An ordinary L-shaped gravity actuating-bar H retains this door F in position. Below we provide the door with an opening e, within which a crowbar or other instrument may be inserted to lift this door-section upward when it has become jammed or frozen. The handholds or cars I, which will be noticed, are long enough so that an upward movement of this lower section is permitted, as is also the gravitybar H, which permits the gate sliding upward.

In a closed position the upper edge of the lower gate-sections works behind the lower edge of the upper section, so that the cardoor is properly closed, though when both the sections are closed the lower edge is flush with the side of the car, being positioned behind the door-sill, while the upper sliding section is in front of the sill. It will be seen from this that the lower door-section F is held in a closed position by means of the upper section. Now when this section is slid to one side the lower section would drop outward if it were not for the bar H.

In Fig. 2 the doors are shown open to the 5 fullest capacity, and in Fig. 3 the lower doorsection is shown in position when used as a running-board.

The device is noticeable because of its extreme simplicity.

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Now, having thus described. our said invention, what we claim as new, and desire to secure by United States Patent, is

1. In a stock-car the combination of a gate comprising an upper sliding section of a lower pivoted section said upper section aiding in looking said lower section in a vertical position said lower section being permitted while in a locked position an upward movement handholds secured adjoining said lower section and a bar secured to said lower section and movably held by said handholds all sub stantially as and for the purpose set forth.

2. In a stock car the combination of an upper sliding door-section of a lower door-section said lower door-section being provided with an extending bar handholds adapted to receive said bar said bar being loosely held by said handholds said gate being permitted an upward movement and a catch for securing said lower door-section, all substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

3. The combination with an ordinary stock- JOHN B. SMILEY. WILLIAM B. OI-IEEK. Witnesses:

O. L. THOMAS, G. W. Suits. 

